During the Alaçatı Herb Festival, the streets are lined with stalls presenting a wide variety of herb-based dishes; there are also seminars and video screenings on the herbs' beneficial properties, workshops on how to collect them and cooking classes on how to prepare them.
Other highlights include a parade, wild green gathering excursions and cooking competitions.
Yeşilüzümlü Morel Mushroom Festival
Going into its eleventh year, Fethiye's Yeşilüzümlü Morel Mushroom Festival (Yeşilüzümlü Kuzugöbeği Festivali) is gaining popularity as thousands make their way to the rural and picturesque Yeşilüzümlü village, located 16 kilometers from the city center and at 700 meters elevation.
A Slow Food town candidate, every year the prized wild morel mushroom is celebrated and showcased in weekend-long festivities. There will be stands displaying all sorts of mushroom products and dishes prepared with them.
There will be panels discussing mushroom-related topics and a guided mushroom hunt. The festival always closes with a live concert by one of Turkey's top-billed musical performers. It will take place from April 5 to 7.
Adana's International Orange Blossom Carnival
Turkey's first and only carnival of its kind, the International Orange Blossom Carnival in Adana will take place from April 3 to 7.
In addition to the colorful carnival parade, which will take place on April 6, throughout the five-day festivities, there will be street performances, dance shows, musical concerts, competitions and stands selling local products from the region.
Located between Alaçatı and the city of İzmir, Urla is also a quaint Aegean summer destination town that comes to life in the last weekend of April, from the 26th to the 28th, for the Artichoke Festival
For three days, this Aegean town transforms into a culinary, educational and visual wonderland with its cobblestone streets lined with stalls presenting dishes, workshops, panels and cooking courses all centered on the beloved artichoke.
This will be the fifth edition of this festival in which approximately 100,000 people come out from all over Turkey and the world to enjoy three days of merriment centered on cuisine and farm-to-table production in this beautiful town.
Slow Cheese Bodrum
Bodrum's Slow Food chapter Yaveş Gari hosts a cheese festival that has taken place every other year since 2015 - theSlow Cheese Bodrum Peynir Festivali. This year, which is the third edition, will take place between April 11 and 14 in different venues in Bodrum and Muğla.
A celebration of regional Anatolian cheeses, there will be tastings of cheeses from all over Turkey as well as cheese-making workshops and seminars on topics related to cheese production.
